PRISONERS OF WAR

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 21, 20 October 1941, Page 12

PRISONERS OF WAR

Parcels Sent By Next-of-Kin Though next-of-kin have already been advised of articles which are not permitted to be sent to prisoners of war and that now all parcels for prisoners of war are being censored in New Zealand, many forbidden articles have been included in parcels. Some of these are coloured civilian trousers, lumber jackets, packages containing cake only, tinned barley sugar, and five-penny international coupons. The Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society draw’s attention to the fact that if the regulations are ignored a great deal of extra work is entailed. To avoid disappointment and trouble to those censoring the parcels, people should realise that forbidden articles will be taken out of the parcels and disposed of by the Joint Council at its discretion. As many of the parcels passing through the depot recently were the first from next-of-kin, leniency has been shown, and trouble and expense have been undertaken in returning the prohibited items to the senders.

Iu future forbidden articles included in parcels will be forfeited by the sender.

“Next-of-kin should rigidly ignore lists of permissible articles purporting to come from unofficial sources,” states the council.